More women in CAR get degrees

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines  â€” More women than men earn bachelor’s degrees in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), the National Statistical Coordination Board found out.

Women comprised 63 percent of all the college graduates in the region for academic year 2010-2011, according to reports of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED-CAR), Aldin Bahit, Statistical Coordination office of the agency said.

Women, records revealed, dominated Home Economics (95%); Mass Communication and Documentation (80%); Service Trades (79%); Education Science and Teacher Training (75%); Medical and Allied (73%); Mathematics (69%); Business Administration and Related (69%); Social and Behavioral Science (67%); Natural Science (66%); Fine and Applied Arts (58%); and Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries (56%) courses.

Though men outnumbered women in Religion and Theology (93%); Engineering & Technology (74%); Trade, Craft and Industrial (70%); Architectural and Town Planning (68%); General (63%); Other Disciplines (62%); and Law and Jurisprudence (54%).

Still, most graduates came from the medical and allied courses which comprised nearly one-third (31%) of the total 16,661 graduates, followed by Business Administration and related courses (22%) and Education Science and Teacher Training (11%).

 While the share of women graduates from these top three disciplines alone was nearly half (46%) of the total graduates in AY 2010-2011.